January 6, 1925 – May 17. 2018
Born in New York, Pearl Berlin earned her Ph.D. from Penn State and from 1959 to 1971 was professor of health and physical education at Wayne State University. She then took a faculty position at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. She and her life partner Ellen Gerber were plaintiffs in a court challenge of North Carolina’s ban on same-sex marriage. The couple legally wed in 2013.
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